The Best Episodes Written By Charles Beaumont

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.8/10(14 votes)

   #1 - Valley of the Shadow

   S4:E31/17/1963

   A reporter finds himself trapped in a small town where people can reverse time and do many other amazing things.

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   7.8/10(17 votes)

   #2 - Living Doll

   S5:E611/1/1963

   Erich is displeased when his wife buys an expensive doll for his step-daughter. He becomes even more displeased when the doll tells him it doesn't like him!

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   7.7/10(14 votes)

   #3 - Number 12 Looks Just Like You

   S5:E171/24/1964

   In a future where everyone must undergo an operation at the age of 19 to make them identical to everyone else, one woman desperately tries to hang onto her own identity.

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   7.6/10(22 votes)

   #4 - Shadow Play

   S2:E265/5/1961

   Trapped in a recurring nightmare, a man tries to persuade those who are sentencing him to death that the whole scenario is not real.

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   7.6/10(15 votes)

   #5 - Person or Persons Unknown

   S3:E273/23/1962

   David Gurney wakes up to find that no one - his wife, his co-workers, his best friend, not even his own mother knows him.

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   7.5/10(35 votes)

   #6 - Elegy

   S1:E202/19/1960

   Three astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left--only all of the people seem frozen in time.

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   7.5/10(2 votes)

   #7 - The Long Silence

   S1:E253/22/1963

   In an elaborate con, Ralph Mason marries a rich woman named Nora Cory for her money. Unfortunately his schemes goes awry when he murders one of her sons from a former marriage. As he attempts to make the death look like a suicide, he is caught by Nora as he is writing a fake suicide note. Nora collapses and falls into a paralyzed, yet conscious, state. She is bedridden and worried that her husband will try to kill her. She is also unable to speak and cannot tell anyone about her dangerous husband. When her nurse Jean Dekker allows her husband to adminster her medicine, she grows fearful that he will try to poison her. Fortunately, the nurse figures out a way to communicate with Nora. Nora squeezes her hand in response to yes or no questions. Jean discovers the truth about Ralph, but when Ralph finds out he tries to kill both Nora and Jean . Fortunately, Nora comes out of her paralysis in time to scream. She alerts her second son who manages to subdue Ralph before he can kill again.

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   7.4/10(30 votes)

   #8 - Long Live Walter Jameson

   S1:E243/18/1960

   Walter Jameson, a popular history professor, is suspected by his fiancée's father, another professor at the college, to be an immortal.

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   7.4/10(14 votes)

   #9 - In His Image

   S4:E11/3/1963

   A scientist tries to correct his imperfections by building a mechanical likeness of himself, which includes of all the finer qualities he is lacking.

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    7.4/10(28 votes)

    #10 - The Howling Man

    S2:E511/4/1960

    A man on a walking trip of post-World War I Europe gets caught in a storm. He comes across a remote monastery with a mysterious prisoner.

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    7.3/10(29 votes)

    #11 - A Nice Place to Visit

    S1:E284/15/1960

    After being shot to death, the criminal Rocky Valentine encounters the amiable white-haired Mr. Pip in the afterlife, who gives him everything he wishes for.

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    7.1/10(14 votes)

    #12 - Printer's Devil

    S4:E92/28/1963

    A wily old man, hired by a bankrupt newspaper editor, has the knack of predicting headline stories and claims to be the Devil.

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13. 

    7.0/10(48 votes)

    #13 - Perchance to Dream

    S1:E911/27/1959

    A man with a heart condition explains to his psychiatrist that he feels extremely tired, because he is terrified of falling asleep for fear he might die.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Shadow Play / Grace Note

    S1:E234/4/1986

    A condemned man, Adam Grant, insists that everything and everyone around him is a dream: one that he can't wake up from. He claims that every time he is executed, he fails to wake up and must relive the whole thing again. His attorney is originally skeptical, but Grant knows all of the "lines" and can predict things that will happen miles away. His attorney tries to get a stay of execution, but is just too late: Grant is "executed" and wakes up at his trial once more. The players have changed roles, but otherwise everything is the same as he must relive the same events over...and over...and over. An opera singer is having a hard time. Her sister is at the hospital dying. Her sick sister leaves a gift: a glimpse into the future when the singer is a world-famous star.

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    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Backward, Turn Backward

    S5:E181/31/1960

    A middle aged plumber is suspected of bludgeoning to death the father of his 19-year-old love interest, but the Sheriff can't figure out how the man could have done the crime and been caring for his baby grandson at the same time.

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    6.9/10(11 votes)

    #16 - Passage on the Lady Anne

    S4:E175/9/1963

    A quarrelsome young couple find themselves taking a trip on the Lady Anne, an old passenger liner that is transporting a group of equally old passengers.

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    6.9/10(11 votes)

    #17 - The New Exhibit

    S4:E134/4/1963

    The curator of a murderers' row in a soon-to-be-defunct wax museum persuades the owner to let him keep the figures for awhile. When his wife attempts to destroy them, a new murderous rampage begins...

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18. 

    6.8/10(20 votes)

    #18 - Long Distance Call

    S2:E223/31/1961

    A young boy find he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone.

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    6.8/10(17 votes)

    #19 - Static

    S2:E203/10/1961

    Ed Lindsay hates television, so he gets his old radio out of the basement of the boardinghouse where he lives. He soon finds he can receive programs from the past when he's alone.

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    6.8/10(12 votes)

    #20 - Dead Man's Shoes

    S3:E181/19/1962

    A vagrant steps into a murdered gangster's expensive shoes and is taken over by the dead man's ghost, who vows to remain on Earth to seek revenge against his killer.

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    6.5/10(19 votes)

    #21 - The Prime Mover

    S2:E213/24/1961

    Ace Larsen discovers his business partner has the ability to control objects with his mind. The pair head to Vegas to win big.

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    6.5/10(12 votes)

    #22 - The Jungle

    S3:E1212/1/1961

    Alan Richards plans to build a dam in Africa on a tribe's ancestral land. The tribe's voodoo doctor puts a curse on him.

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    6.5/10(11 votes)

    #23 - The Fugitive

    S3:E253/9/1962

    Old Ben, who is able to transform himself into anything, tries to help a crippled little girl.

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    6.4/10(12 votes)

    #24 - Miniature

    S4:E82/21/1963

    A lonely man falls in love with a mini museum doll, which he believes is alive.

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    6.3/10(9 votes)

    #25 - Queen of the Nile

    S5:E233/6/1964

    A columnist interviews a famous movie actress who has a secret to her eternal beauty.

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